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This week, Missouri lawmakers and interested citizens will return to Jefferson City for the annual veto session, which begins at noon on Sept. 14. During veto session, members of the General Assembly have the opportunity to override measures that have been vetoed by the governor.

Per the Missouri Constitution, no veto session can exceed 10 calendar days, and each vetoed bill must first be taken

This summer, Missouri lost one of the two state leaders involved in an historic partnership of cross-party collaboration. The partnership arose after the November 2000 elections that cost Democrats control of the Senate that they had enjoyed for generations.

But Republicans could not take over because voters handed the Senate a 17-17 tie with neither side holding a majority. Compounding the problem was that three Senate members

In response to Rep. Tony Dugger’s resignation from the House of Representatives, Ryan Johnson, President of the Missouri Alliance for Freedom, called on the Missouri Legislature to follow through with its ethics reform priorities and to strengthen the new revolving door law.

“Tony Dugger’s resignation from the House does not make him a bad person. It does, however, illustrate the need for a more robust fix to the problem that

Like most of you, I used to get my information about the candidates on the ballot from TV ads and mailers. As an elected representative, I now have more opportunities to meet and visit with the candidates in person.

In the run up to the primary, I would use these visits to ask direct questions and evaluate not only what a candidate would say, but

The recent conviction of 22 protesters whose 2014 demonstration in the Missouri Senate visitors’ gallery chamber forced the Senate to recess is an indication of how different Missouri’s Capitol is from the U.S. Capitol I covered in 1972.

For an hour on May 6, 2014, the protesters sang and chanted against the legislature’s refusal to expand Medicaid. Those convicted in the Cole County Court of misdemeanor trespass

To grotesquely paraphrase George Orwell’s Animal Farm, “All elections are crazy. Some are more crazy than others.” This year’s election cycle in Missouri may stand as the craziest of all.
We have a Republican nominee for governor who previously was a Democrat. We have a Democrat nominee for governor who previously was a Republican. In the Democratic primary for U.S. Senate, we had a candidate named

Agriculture has long been, and remains to this day, the Show-Me State’s No. 1 industry. Here in northwest Missouri, it is still the foundation of our local communities and way of life. As such, it is essential our state lawmakers and agencies implement policies that allow Missouri’s agricultural producers and associated industries to remain vibrant and productive and stand as a check against bureaucratic overreach.